Psychological support for the middle age in a crisis condition: a resource approach

Tkachenko Irina Valerievna, Sinyavin Danil Sergeevich

There is a need to develop new and improve old technologies of psychological support for adults, taking into account the whole complex of psychological specifics of middle age and its acmeological component. The personal resource base can be conditionally divided into external and internal sources. External sources have specific properties: limitation, competitiveness, impossibility of saturation, acceleration of consumption, dependence, inevitable disappointment. Internal resource sources are aimed at the development of internal satisfaction, rather than enjoyment. Internal personal developmental resources have a number of specific properties: infinity, lack of competition, immediate compensation (resource from the process), consumption slowdown, autonomy and unconditionality. This article shows a study aimed at developing a program of psychological support during a mid-life crisis.

Keywords:crisis, resources, middle age, personal developmental resources, psychological support